"We tend to meet any new situation in life by reorganising," Petronius Arbiter, a 1st-century Roman satirist, is supposed to have remarked. "And what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." Wonderful, indeed, for John Negroponte, America's ambassador to Iraq, who will leave Baghdad this month to become America's first director of national intelligence (DNI). Mr Negroponte may come to question which job is the more harrowing. On one side, murder and mayhem; on the other, mayhem and mystery.
The Economist, "America's intelligence reforms: Can spies be made better?" The Economist, 2005-03-19
Posted by Nicholas at March 25, 2005 12:52 PM
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